This beer is all about the haze, pouring a juicy fluorescent orange with a mousse- and latte-like foam. The sip starts off with papaya and guava moving to pineapple and a seedy passion fruit centre. A low but persistent orange-rind bitterness balances the sip. This hazy brew is tough to find — you can only buy it at some wine and beer stores in Illinois — but it is worth the hunt as it won gold at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival for Hazy, Juicy IPAs.
This Rio de Janerio brewery hopped to Canada, landing in Toronto before moving to their permanent home in Montreal. Helmed by talented brewer, Patricia Rios, their Hazy drinks like a glorious tropical fruit bomb. Peaches and fresh mango mark the nose, cotton candy washes over the palate, drying out in the finish. Try this full, creamy New England style IPA with Mexican, Thai or a fresh bowl loaded with fresh herbs and all the veggies.
This is a beer to close your cottage with. Sip it under the last of the summer sun on your deck in September. Its deep caramel and biscuit notes with subtle cinnamon, ginger and allspice, beckon the beginning of a new season.
Made in Hamburg Ontario by seasoned brewmaster, Charles Maclean, this porter is made with eight types of barley giving it silky notes of dark chocolate, toffee and espresso. The beer is finished with Ontario cherries for a ribbon of tart cherries. Share a bottle with brownies for dessert.
This deep brown stout swirls with walnut highlights under a tall, foamy cap. It looks and smells the part, like opening a fresh bag of medium-roast coffee with dark berry and plum notes. The medium-light, bubbly body boasts notes of coffee, smoke and a long, dry cacao-nib note in the finish. Roast dinners and stews make easy companions.
This beer is all about the haze, pouring a juicy fluorescent orange with a moussey, latte-like foam. The sip starts off with papaya and guava moving to pineapple and a seedy passion fruit centre. A low but persistent orange-rind bitterness balances the sip. This hazy brew is tough to find — you can only buy it at some wine and beer stores in Illinois — but it’s worth the hunt as it won gold at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival for Hazy, Juicy IPAs.
Kveik ales are a Norwegian farmhouse style made with a unique wild yeast strain. This version mixes in a barnyard Brettanomyces yeast and infuses spent gin botanicals from Ontario’s Willibald Gin Distillery. Farm fresh aromas erupt from the glass with notes of mango and pineapple marking the loose yellow foam cap. The medium body sparkles with small, fine carbonation and on the sip Campari-like bitterness, orange rind and apricot come to the fore with an herbaceously bitter finale.